Do you appetite to use Microsoft Office but don’t appetite to pay for it? Try the chargeless Office for the web apps.

Formerly accepted as Office Online and now accepted artlessly as Office, the web-based apps abide online, attainable through your browser. Instead of installing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on your computer, you tap into cloud-based varieties of the altered programs—similar to Google Docs—and all you charge is a web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, or a agnate program.

Instead of autumn your files and abstracts on your computer, you save them to Microsoft OneDrive, the company’s cloud-based accumulator service. The alone bolt is that the Office for the web apps aren’t as feature-packed as their desktop counterparts. You’ll acquisition basal alteration and formatting commands but not abundant more. However, if all you charge are the basics, this is an advantage account trying.

Office for the web offers the four amount programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. But you can additionally tap into added apps, including Outlook, Calendar, People, Skype, and OneDrive. Addition app alleged Sway allows you to actualize alternate belletrist and presentations.

Let’s go through the accomplish for accessing and appliance the Office for the web apps to create, edit, and save your documents.

First, you’ll charge a Microsoft Account. If you don’t already accept one, set it up at Microsoft’s Account website. A Microsoft Account comes with 5GB of chargeless OneDrive storage; if you charge more, you can snag 100GB for $1.99 a month.

Sign in with your Microsoft Account and you will be taken to the Office website.

Up top, you’ll see apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Once you alpha creating and extenuative Office files, those will arise at the basal of the folio as contempo abstracts so you can added calmly and bound admission them.

We’ll use Word as the analysis accountable here. Bang it and a folio launches area you can baddest a arrangement to actualize your certificate or file. For example, Word offers templates for resumes, awning letters, flyers, and calendars. If you don’t charge a appropriate template, aloof bang the one for New bare document.

Word opens for you to alpha creating your document; you’ll acquisition all the basal alteration options via the toolbar. For example, you can: set the font, point size, and added attributes of your argument as able-bodied as administer assertive styles; admit tables, pictures, folio numbers, and headers and footers; acclimatize the folio size, margins, and orientation; zoom in and out of your document; and run a spell check.

Your certificate takes on a absence name of Certificate 1, Certificate 2, etc. To change the name, bang in the Name book at the top of the certificate and blazon a new one. Your certificate automatically saves periodically, but you may appetite to manually save it in a specific area in OneDrive.

Click the Book menu, baddest the Save As command, again baddest Save As, and accept the area to which you appetite the book saved. You can additionally download the book to your PC, either as a Word certificate or PDF. The Book card additionally gives you the befalling to book the document, or allotment it with others by emailing them a link.

To accessible a book you already created, bang the Accessible command and accept from contempo documents.

The online versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote assignment analogously to Word in that they action all the basal commands and features. You can admission addition Office app after closing your accepted one.

To do this, bang the “List of Microsoft Services” button in the upper-left bend (it’s the one that contains nine baby squares) and again baddest the appliance you ambition to open. Since the programs and your files are all online, you can admission them from any affiliated computer or device.